22 Year Old Minnesota Composer to Perform New Music in Honor of I-35 Bridge Victims

22 Year Old Minnesota Composer to Perform New Music in Honor of I-35 Bridge Victims

MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 14 /PRNewswire/ --
WHAT Live lunchtime performance of original work Final Ride
Home by local pianist Phil Thompson, dedicated to those
who have suffered from the tragic collapse of the I-35
bridge.

WHY Increase awareness of Thompson's related fundraising
effort. The song can be downloaded from both iTunes and CD
Baby for 99 cents. Thompson's goal is to raise $1,000,000,
from 1,000,000 individual downloads. All proceeds will
be donated to the Twin Cities Chapter of the American Red
Cross.

WHERE City Center Atrium, 1st floor Between Nicollet Mall and
Hennepin Avenue, between 6th and 7th Streets

WHEN Three brief performances, starting at 12, 12:30 and
1:00.
Thursday, August 16

Background: 22 year old Phil Thompson, an award winning composer,
honors composition student at the MacPhail Center for the
Arts and recent University of Minnesota graduate, has a
deep commitment to using his musical talents as a way of
helping others. He composed Final Ride Home as a tribute
to those whose lives were lost as a result of the I-35
bridge collapse.

Brookfield Properties, one of North America's largest
commercial real estate companies, has invited Thompson to
perform in City Center's atrium (one of their four
properties in Minneapolis; others include Gaviidae Common,
33 South Sixth Street Tower and the Dain Rauscher Plaza)
as a way of increasing awareness of the fund raising he's
undertaken.

Visual elements of the performance:

-- Heavy skyway lunchtime traffic from downtown's
185,000 office workers.
-- Thompson will perform on the first level of the
newly renovated 5 story City Center Atrium.
-- Thompson's own website
(http://www.philthompsonmusic.com/) and YouTube
feature the music choreographed with still images
of the bridge collapse.

First Call Analyst:
FCMN Contact:

Source: Brookfield Properties

CONTACT: Betsy Buckley, +1-651-603-0441, or Cell, +1-612-669-5876,
betsyb@what-matters.com, for Brookfield Properties

Web site:

http://www.philthompsonmusic.com/

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